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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Feb 10 18:41:27 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Robert From Queens on Sat Feb 10 18:04:10 2007. 1) The Northern Parkway dips at least a half mile south off course around Old Westbury. Why you ask? He was forced by the rich of this area. No Cross Bronx slow-way thru their yards.So how is that HIS fault? he WANTED it to go straight, the community made it do it's roundabout run. When he came down to the Expressway, he in that case won out over them, and the LIE cuts through as it should. However, notice, they still didn't allow RM to design any exits there....that's still a long stretch without an exit or entrance... However, the final vestage of Old Westbury came full circle. Not anything to do with RM, but in the early 80's, when they were adding streetlights to the LIE from the city line to around exit 61, Old Westbury didn't allow them to put the lights through from exit 38 to exit 41... That was the famous "dark stretch, without exits" until recently. They must have softened, as when the HOV lane was put in, the streetlights finally were added. 2) Why doesn't the Van Wyck have a rapid transit line going down the center? Its amazing how New York City has no direct transit connection to its International Airport. I don't count the Airtrain, because once again it was a case of shove it down their throats by a modern day Moses, the lawless and unaccountable to anybody Port Authority. The real horror story in that is that the IN USE, and BUILT LIRR Rockaway line. In 1962, the line was still active, and Idlewild (JFK) Airport was there. Airline travel was in it's infancy, but how in 1962, they allowed an IN USE line to be abandoned, right next to the airport is incorrigable. 3) Why isn't there a transit line on the Whitestone Bridge? Transit was not popular by the time that bridge was built. The TA was abandoning lines back then, unfortunately not building them. 4) Weren't the Parkways built with low overpasses so buses couldn't bring the riff-raff to "his" beaches. Buses weren't at the point they are now in the 1930's in the infancy of the parkway system, and IINM, buses can physically ride to Jones beach on both the Wantagh way in, or the Robert Moses Causway. ) The jerk built more roads than anybody, but didn't learn to drive? What's wrong with this picture? Yes, roads and bridges that if we didn't have now, NYC and Long Island would have been crippled without. And these roads and bridges were being build ALL AROUND the country at the time. Other cities were also building roads instead of transit. It was the attitude of the time. You are again trying to take modern thought and attitude, and trying to fit it into the era of the 1930's-1960's. And whether he drove or not is irrelevant. 7) Just picture Manhattan with midtown and Lower Manhattan expressways. Picture them what? They weren't built. I'm not saying they should or should not have been built, but they aren't here. If they were underground through Manhattan (similar to Boston), it would probably be a good thing. It's all irrelevant though, as it doesn't exist either above or below Manhattan. 8) Remember in conclusion "they don't know what's good for them." And many people wanted cars. The whole country wanted the interstates. The whole country wanted bridges. This was NOT a New York phenomena. |
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